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Line 1: {{Short description|American agricultural scientist}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = William Penn Brooks Line 22 ⟶ 23: }} '''William Penn Brooks''' (November 19, 1851 – March 8, 1938) was an American [[agricultural scientist]], who worked as a [[oyatoi gaikokujin|foreign advisor]] in [[Meiji period]] [[Japan]] during the colonization project for [[Hokkaidō]]. He was the eighth president of the [[Massachusetts Agricultural College]]. Brooks is remembered as one of six Founders of [[Phi Sigma Kappa]] ==Biography== Line 32 ⟶ 33: ===Collegiate activities=== Brooks' collegiate activities are notable because of his role in founding [[Phi Sigma Kappa]] While at "Aggie," Brooks was a member of the [[Irving Literary Society (Cornell University)|Washington Irving Literary Society]], a popular pastime among the undergraduates. He was a member of the Gymnastic Association, held the military rank of captain in the College's Battalion, and was an editor of the 1875 version of the college yearbook. His peers honored Brooks by election as permanent historian of the class. He was valedictorian of the [[Massachusetts Agricultural College]] class of 1875, where he had specialized in [[agricultural chemistry]]. Yet among all these, it was his role as a Founder of [[Phi Sigma Kappa]] fraternity in his Sophomore year by which his name is best remembered today.<ref name="Phi Sigma Kappa Rand History" /> ===Early career in Japan=== After a year of graduate study, Brooks was hired as a teacher for [[Sapporo Agricultural College]] (SAC), in Japan, whose head teacher at that time was Brooks' former professor, [[William Smith Clark]]. Brooks arrived in [[Sapporo]] in January 1877, shortly before Clark left the school and only a few months before the Japanese government crushed the [[Satsuma rebellion]], the last opposition to its policy of modernization. Immediately after his arrival, he began to deliver lectures on agricultural science and took charge of the directorship of the experimental fields. Brooks worked at the Sapporo Agricultural School for twelve years, four of which he served as the college president. In 1882, Brooks traveled home on leave and married. His wife, Eva Bancroft Hall Brooks went after him to live in Sapporo until his contract expired in 1888. During this time they had two children, Rachel Bancroft Brooks and Sumner Cushing Brooks (also to become a Phi Sig, ''Alpha, 1910''), who later married noted American biologist [[Matilda Moldenhauer Brooks]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.108.2815.667 |title=Sumner Cushing Brooks 1888-1948 |publisher=Sciencemag.org |date=1948-12-10 |doi=10.1126/science.108.2815.667 |accessdate=2014-03-31|last1=Heilbrunn |first1=L. V. |journal=Science |volume=108 |issue=2815 |pages=667–668 |pmid=17744031 |bibcode=1948Sci...108..667H |url-access=subscription }}</ref> ===Back to Amherst, by way of Germany=== Brooks returned to the United States in October 1888 after having received the [[Order of the Rising Sun]] (4th class) from [[Emperor Meiji]], In 1920, Brooks received an honorary doctorate from the Minister of Education in Japan. [[File:Old North College, at the University of Massachusetts, site of Phi Sigma Kappa founding, circa 1923, sm.jpg|right|400px|Old North Hall, site of ===Retirement=== Line 64 ⟶ 70: After his first wife died (1924) he married Grace L. Holden in 1927 at the age of seventy-six. Brooks died at the age of 86 in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]] in 1938.<ref>William Penn Brooks Papers, Special Collections & University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst. Available at http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/digital/brooks.htm</ref> He had been the sole surviving Founder since the death of Campbell nine years earlier. The [[William P. Brooks House|Brooks House]], a dormitory on the UMass campus, built in 1948, was named in his honor. ==Selected works== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=h6QpAQAAMAAJ&dq=inauthor%3A%22William%20Penn%20Brooks%22&pg=PA3 *[https://books.google.com/books?id=-pYpAQAAMAAJ&dq=inauthor%3A%22William%20Penn%20Brooks%22&pg=PA3 *[https://books.google.com/books?id=xJYpAQAAMAAJ&dq=inauthor%3A%22William%20Penn%20Brooks%22&pg=PA51 *[https://books.google.com/books?id=hbs2AQAAIAAJ *[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924000909444#page/n1/mode/2up "Experiment Station Accuracy"], correspondence with Andrew H. Ward (1899) *"Agriculture" (1901) :* [https://books.google.com/books?id=VFAvAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22William%20Penn%20Brooks%22&pg=PP7 :* [https://books.google.com/books?id=vlAvAQAAIAAJ&dq=inauthor%3A%22William%20Penn%20Brooks%22&pg=PA197 :* [https://books.google.com/books?id=G1EvAQAAIAAJ&dq=inauthor%3A%22William%20Penn%20Brooks%22&pg=PA521 *[https://books.google.com/books?id=7Lw2AQAAIAAJ *[https://books.google.com/books?id=x7DncI_EIDoC *[https://books.google.com/books?id=hL82AQAAIAAJ *[https://books.google.com/books?id=hL82AQAAIAAJ *[https://books.google.com/books?id=hL82AQAAIAAJ *[https://books.google.com/books?id=CwInAQAAMAAJ *[https://books.google.com/books?id=CwInAQAAMAAJ ==References== Line 91 ⟶ 97: ==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=William P. Brooks |sopt=t}}
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